Patents Examined by Jean Gelin
  • Method and apparatus for supporting early data transmission in inactive state in wireless communication system
    Patent number: 11564277
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for supporting an early data transmission (EDT) in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state is provided. The current gNB receives a resume request message including uplink (UL) data from the wireless device, and transmits a logical channel identifier (LCID) for the UL data to the last serving gNB. The last serving gNB transmits UL forwarding user plane (UP) transport network layer (TNL) information to the current gNB based on mapping between the LCID for the UL data and data radio bearer (DRB) ID or protocol data unit (PDU) session ID in a UE context stored in the last serving gNB. The current gNB forwards the UL data to a core network via the last serving gNB based on the UL forwarding UP TNL information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seokjung Kim, Daewook Byun, Jian Xu
  • Methods, systems, and devices for masking content to obfuscate an identity of a user of a mobile device
    Patent number: 11564085
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a first user associated with a first mobile device, and determining a first user type associated with the first user. Further embodiments can include identifying a first identity associated with the first user based on the first user type and identifying a second identity associated with the first user based on the first user type. Additional embodiments can include providing first alternate content to the first mobile device to mask the first identity and providing second alternate content to the first mobile device associated with the second identity. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Cassioppi, Eric Zavesky, James H. Pratt
  • Method and apparatus for managing information about RRC connection in wireless communication system
    Patent number: 11564276
    Abstract: A terminal for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangyeob Jung, Soenghun Kim, Sangbum Kim
  • Estimating physiological load from location data
    Patent number: 11562268
    Abstract: Methods and devices for determining a load vector on an object are disclosed herein. An example method includes collecting location observations related to the object. The example method further includes filtering the location observations to determine an estimated model path. The example method further includes outputting a set of data from the estimated model path, wherein the set of data includes a model location, a model velocity, a model acceleration, and a model jerk. The example method further includes calculating a load vector from the set of data, scaling the load vector via a scaling index, and transmitting the scaled load vector to a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Dorris, Carl S. Mower
  • NF service consumer restart detection using direct signaling between NFs
    Patent number: 11563649
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting, e.g., that a Network Function (NF) service consumer in a core network of a cellular communications system has restarted are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a NF service consumer in a core network of a cellular communications system comprises sending, to a NF service producer, a message comprising information related to a unit of the NF service consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Yunjie Lu, Wenliang Xu, Yong Yang
  • Systems and methods for emergency data integration
    Patent number: 11558728
    Abstract: A disclosed apparatus obtains emergency data for multiple device types from a plurality of emergency data sources and provides a jurisdictional map view to a plurality of emergency network entities, where each emergency network entity corresponds to a given geographic boundary. The jurisdictional map view corresponds to a respective emergency network entity's geographic boundary. The apparatus determines portions of the emergency data corresponding to emergencies occurring within each respective emergency network entity geographic boundary, and provides location indicators within each respective jurisdictional map view, with each location indicator corresponding to an emergency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: RAPIDSOS, INC.
    Inventors: William Pellegrini, Lucas Richard Eager Leavitt, BingJun Sy, Henry Katz, Gabriel Mahoney, Andrew Hwang, Zvika Ferentz, Riccardo Pellegrini, Angela Lynn Orthmeyer
  • Measurement method, user equipment, and network side device
    Patent number: 11553367
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a measurement method, user equipment, and a network side device. The method includes receiving first measurement configuration information sent by a network side device, and performing measurement in an inactive mode based on the first measurement configuration information, to obtain a measurement result, where the first measurement configuration information is used at least in the inactive mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianping Zhou, Xiaodong Yang, Qian Zheng
  • Methods and apparatuses for faster radio frequency activation
    Patent number: 11553555
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for faster radio frequency (RF) activation are provided. One method may include transmitting by a network node, or receiving by a user equipment, a connection release message for the user equipment, wherein the connection release message comprises an indication for the user equipment to start measuring secondary cells after connection release. The method may then include during or immediately after connection setup or connection resume, receiving by the network node or transmitting by the user equipment, an indication of availability of measurements of the secondary cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lars Dalsgaard, Tero Henttonen, Elena Virtej
  • Enhancements to EHPLMN scans in cellular networks
    Patent number: 11546722
    Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) device, such as a cellular telephone, configured to store Higher Priority Public Land Mobile Network (HPPLMN) timer setting values and enterprise geofence information associated with the entries on its Equivalent Home Public Land Mobile Network (EHPLMN) list is disclosed. When the UE is camped on an EHPLMN, the UE may search/scan for higher priority EHPLMNs using the HPPLMN timer setting values associated with the entries on the list that have higher priority than the current EHPLMN. The rate of the scans may be set based on the shortest HPPLMN timer entry of the higher priority entries on the EHPLMN list. The UE may also or instead be configured to search for geofenced EHPLMNs on the list for which entrance criteria are currently satisfied, even when the current EHPLMN has higher priority than the geofenced EHPLMNs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Celona, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Mehmet Yavuz
  • Method and apparatus for adaptive location determination
    Patent number: 11540083
    Abstract: Locations for mobile computers may be adaptively determined in a system which includes a server, a set of mobile computers, and an administrator computer. In such a system, the set of mobile computers may each be programmed with instructions operable to, when executed, transmit multiple forms of location information to the server. Additionally, the server may be programmed with a set of location determination routines and these routines may be used in determining a location for each of the mobile computers from the set of mobile computers. These locations may then be used to populate an interface of the administrator computer with icons at positions corresponding to the mobile computers' locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: GigFlex LLC
    Inventors: Larry S. Schwartz, Mitesh D. Desai
  • Multiple call types for a call event
    Patent number: 11540179
    Abstract: Techniques for multiple call types for a call event are described and may be implemented via a wireless device to enable multiple connections for wireless calls. For instance, redundant connections for a call event of a wireless device are established via different call types and utilized to exchange call media of the call event. In at least some implementations, call media from the different call types is combined to provide a combined media stream for output as part of the call event. Thus, techniques for multiple call types for a call event are applicable to increase call quality in different scenarios and environments, such as in situations where a primary call connection experiences an anomaly condition that causes quality call degradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Daniel C. Chisu, Si Chen
  • Device, system and method for selecting a public safety answering point server to include on a call
    Patent number: 11533602
    Abstract: A device, system, and method for selecting a public safety answering point server to include on a call is provided. A first communication device associated with a first responder, during a call with a second communication device, provides first and second input mechanisms to select a public-safety answering point (PSAP) to include on the call, respectively based on an association with the first communication device or based on a location of the second communication device. In response to detecting activation of the first or second input mechanism, the first communication device respectively provides, to a network server: information to identify the association with the first communication device or the location of the second communication device. Subsequently, first and second communication devices communicate on the call with a PSAP as selected by the network server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Scott J. Pappas, Steve Mardakis, Chantal Levert, Jeremiah J. Nelson, Francois Cregheur
  • Method and system for interactive notation and text data storage with a mobile device
    Patent number: 11532017
    Abstract: A messaging system and methods that can be simultaneously employed during a voice conversation, ensuring not all information conveyed to the called party can be overheard. Eliminating the need for callers to switch between calling and text to send detail information that needs to be written down. Text messages storage of in a searchable database format as opposed to a running series of sequential messages, enabling both security and quick access to information when needed. Interactivity that will allow text messages to response to date/times to determine a course of action such as alarm notification of upcoming deadlines or being able to automatically eliminate old and outdated messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventor: Oliver Wendel Gamble
  • Segmentation of PWS-message and associated area-information
    Patent number: 11533601
    Abstract: A network node obtains (302) a message to be transmitted as a public warning system notification to multiple UEs, via one or more SIBs, and obtains (304) area information corresponding to the message. The area information indicates an area for which the message is relevant. The network node determines (306) how many SIBs are needed for transmitting the area information and segments (308) the message into a plurality of segments, based on how many SIBs are needed for transmitting the area information. The network node transmits (310) the message and the area information via SIBs, such that a segment of the message is included in each SIB and such that each portion of the area information included in a SIB is accompanied by a segment of the message. A UE receives the SIBs and assembles the message and area information, displaying the message if it is relevant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mattias Bergström, Stephen R. Hayes, Jens Bergqvist
  • Long transmission duration for wireless systems
    Patent number: 11528672
    Abstract: An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) includes processing circuitry, where to configure the UE for New Radio (NR) communications above a 52.6 GHz carrier frequency, the processing circuitry is to decode higher layer signaling, the higher layer signaling including a default slot duration for a transmission of control signaling. The control signaling includes a synchronization signal (SS) and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) signaling. Synchronization information within a SS block is decoded. The SS block is received within a SS burst set and occupying a plurality of symbols within a slot having the default slot duration. A synchronization procedure is performed with a next generation Node-B (gNB) based on the synchronization information within the SS block and the PBCH signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Avik Sengupta, Yushu Zhang, Jie Zhu, Dae Won Lee, Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov, Gregory Vladimirovich Morozov
  • System and non-transitory computer readable medium
    Patent number: 11528639
    Abstract: A system includes an IP communication unit that communicates by IP communication, a non-IP communication unit that communicates by non-IP communication for which a transmittable data size is smaller than the transmittable data size for IP communication, and a controller that controls a switching between communication by the IP communication unit and communication by the non-IP communication unit, such that communication is performed by non-IP communication in a case in which a size of data to transmit is equal to or less than a predetermined first size, and communication is performed by IP communication in the case in which the size of the data to transmit is greater than the first size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Teppei Aoki
  • Device and method for measuring a channel state
    Patent number: 11528647
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to select a cell that is more preferable for a terminal device in an environment in which beamforming is performed. [Solution] There is provided a device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire received quality information indicating received quality of a reference signal in a terminal device; and a control unit configured to perform cell selection for the terminal device based on the received quality information. When a predetermined condition related to use of weight sets for beamforming by a base station is satisfied, the control unit does not perform the selection based on the received quality information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Systems and methods of transferring user information to different devices
    Patent number: 11528357
    Abstract: A communications system according to certain embodiments includes a mobile device and a second type of communications system, such as a landline telephone system, that share usage information. The shared information can include call logs of in-coming and out-going calls, missed calls, text messages, address book information, GPS data, internet browsing data, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventor: David Goren
  • Positioning method, terminal, and server
    Patent number: 11523252
    Abstract: A positioning method includes separately sending, by a terminal, a request for obtaining assistance data to a serving base station and a neighboring cell base station; separately receiving, by the terminal, assistance data from the serving base station and the neighboring cell base station; identifying, by the terminal based on the assistance data, reference signals received from the serving base station and the neighboring cell base station; calculating, by the terminal, a time difference of arrival based on times at which the reference signals arrive at the terminal; and sending, by the terminal, the time difference to a server using an application layer protocol, to enable the server to calculate location information of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hongna Chang
  • Mobile device for power reduction and method thereof
    Patent number: 11523344
    Abstract: A device and a method for saving power in a mobile electronic device are provided. A mobile electronic device includes a plurality of antennas and a transceiver, wherein the transceiver includes a control unit configured to switch to a low power mode to operate in the low power mode, or to operate at least one of the plurality of antennas in the low power mode when a data non-transmission period occurs for a predetermined time in an active state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong-Wook Song, Jin-Hee Cheon, Da-Hae Chong